I have a friend that has a pc. When it boots up, everything looks okay but
when it is done booting and it loads Windows 95 then the screen shows everything repeated and mixed up. We can not do anything else with it after that happens. He is running Windows 95 and on the box it says AT&T PC and he had it only for a month. I don't know how old it is though, he got it second hand. Please help me to unscramble it. The monotor seems okay.

After doing the below first, because a virus, trojan or variant would mess a re-install up, with a Win98 Start disk in the [A] drive restart the computer; choose to boot with CDROM support; With a Win95 install CD in the drive type, e:, and strike the Enter key, at the [E] prompt type, setup, and strike the Enter key. When prompted choose to install lost, corrupted or missing files. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Update your antivirus, temporarily disable your screen saver (choose None) and scan with your anti-virus set to scan All Files. Update and scan bi-monthly. Create your anti-virus' Rescue disk(s) and update them after each Windows anti-virus update.

You can scan on-line to double-check your Windows scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com

Mandatory (get a firewall of any brand) - Get free Zone Alarm personal firewall anti-hacker countermeasure from http://www.zonelabs.com. (not the ZA Pro demo) Don't let anything out to the Internet you don't know what it is.

You could upgrade to Win98 FE or SE but you have to be very sure you're computer is virus free first and the corrupted desktop/icons you describe sounds as if you're computer is infected.

A DOS virus scanner can be had at http://housecall.antivirus.com that you can download onto another computer, run and make the six floppy set, then take to the other computer, restart with floppy disk one in the [A] drive. Type, rescue_disk, in the Search box on the Trand Micro website.

For questions or concerns, click to see my Profile above my post to get my e-mail address and e-mail me, recapping the problem at hand.

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[This message has been edited by Styx (edited 04-10-2002).]

Actually it kind of sounds like the refresh rate is set wrong...try booting into safe mode, if it boots correctly then the video drivers are to blame. You may have to uninstall and reinstall the video drivers...in Safe Mode (<f5> should get you into safe mode, tap this key when it says starting windows...

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